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Famous. Ignored. Celebrated. Damned. What is the truth about William Friese-Greene? This site publishes research which casts new light on the life and inventions of the man once called the "Father of Kinematography".

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Introducing Mr. F-G…

William Friese-Greene & The Art of Collaboration

26 Apr 2018
Last Friday I got back to doing something I used to do 20 years ago: talking about William Friese-Greene in public. The occasion was the British Silent Film Symposium 2018…
Moving Pictures

That Eureka Moment – 5

21 Feb 201821 Feb 2018
“When are you going to get to the point?” is an entirely justifiable cry to escape from you, my dear, (im)patient reader. Well, I have been working on something rather…
Introducing Mr. F-G

Old School vs New School

11 Jan 201811 Jan 2018
These two contrasting books about William Friese-Greene came through my letterbox this week. In the Blue Corner we have "Close-up of an Inventor" from 1948, written (under a pseudonym) by…
Moving Pictures

That Eureka Moment – 4

3 Jan 20183 Jan 2018
To some it would have been the most boring place in the world, but to me it was Aladdin’s Cave. It was March 1996 and I was in the deepest,…
Moving Pictures

That Eureka Moment – 3

20 Dec 201720 Dec 2017
There are some photographs of Friese-Greene’s early film experiments that seem to have been wilfully ignored by historians writing about the beginnings of cinema. My guess is that this is…
Moving Pictures

That Eureka Moment – 2

15 Dec 201720 Dec 2017
You can’t keep a good man down – and when you’re talking about a compulsive inventor, that goes to the power of ten. At the end of the first part…

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